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  • Politics Podcast: Why Jan. 6 Was Not A Turning Point

    January 10, 2022
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    Prof. Brendan Nyhan featured on the podcast "FiveThirtyEight" in an episode about the Jan. 6 insurrection. "We now see a greater partisan division in confidence in the 2022 election than we saw immediately prior to the 2020 election," Nyhan says.

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  • How Many Americans Support Political Violence?

    January 5, 2022
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    A "New York Times" story about the question of support for political violence in the U.S. a year after the Jan 6 insurrection cites a paper co-authored by government professor Sean Westwood that says documented support for such violence is "illusory, a product of ambiguous questions, conflated definitions, and disengaged respondents." Read the full article here!

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  • Is There a Smoking Gun in the January 6th Investigation?

    December 17, 2021
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    "The story of democratic erosion in other countries is that it happens invisibly, you don't have this tanks-in-the-streets moment," the government professor tells "The New Yorker" in an article about the U.S. House select committee's investigation into the events of Jan. 6, 2021.   Read the full article here.     

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